Virgin - a house of cards

[Drago]

Enormous turnover of engineering staff I hear, lured in by good salaries but driven away by allegedly having good engineering practice overridden by timescales and budgets.

 

[Tin Pot]

Are any of the space entrepreneurs working out of London?

I made a few attempts to contact the Google moon race teams without much luck.

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 3720542, member: 259"]Is that the X Prize? I know someone who works at the ESA and he said that the prize money wouldn't pay for the investment you needed.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but it's not meant to - it's a helping hand toward commercial success.

Ask you buddy if the ESA takes volunteers for out of hours work...

 

[Drago]

Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites won the initial X Prize, not Virgin. I don't suppose the winnings even keep Burt in sideburns combs.

 

[vernon]

Its difficult space to be in.

Thats where the Virgin Galactic mission found itself.

 

[vernon]

Mother Fist and her five daughters perchance?

Wife, sister and two members of a pub quiz team actually.

 

[vernon]

Why? Whats in it for me?

The promise of Virgins in the afterlife.

 

[vernon]

This is one that Branson is not going to win. I suspect that it will be closed down.

Is that opinion informed by information leaked by your seconded colleague?

 

[AndyRM]

Probably the latter. Dickie B is due to land on the moon tomorrow. He signed up for Arrow's Space Cadet programme.

 

[Gravity Aided]

https://spacecadetprogram.wordpress.com/

 

[Hill Wimp]

@User is on to it by mentioning the many companies in the Virgin family. RB business model is spreading the risk and making his partners carry much of the risk. He has never come away second best in any partnership.

Same as Francis Urquhart, so this thread is about the box set then ?

 

[mybike]

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ahem, is this a new leaf?

 

[TVC]

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Doesn't usually stop you.

 

[TVC]

I've been studying Wittgenstein.

Been studying the bottle more like

 

[Mugshot]

Branson's going to be devastated when he hears this